Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1892 Page: 3 of 8
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TI Hi FARMING WORLD.
SOME SHEEP TALK.
ll.indy Keeellng Itack -Treatment of
Ewea unit I.Htuhn.
In thr accompanying out is shown a
kkrirh of a sheep rack unci trough. I
Jiave tried all kinds I have seen in thin
anil the old country, and 1 have found
none 1 like so well as this. The great
objection to most is that the tine chaff,
fesy seed, etc., pet into the wool. This | ™ '* '
is entirely obviated in this rack by plac- ' -T
ing" a 12-lneh hemlock board along the
top. and then all the fine and best feed
will fall into the lower trough, which
Is used for feeding grain and ensilage.
A11 iny racks are placed along the side
of the stable. The great objection to
i ig them in the center is that sh(jep.
when frightened ur roughly handled.
«re liable to run against them and be
injured.
When the ewe has lambed 1 place her
and her little lamb in a separate apart-
ment, 4x0 feet—of these I have a large
number. Here we can look at her
udder daily and give her any other at-
HIS OWN EXECUTIONER.
DOMESTIC CONCERNS
rfOi/CH «
A HANDY Slir.EP FKED1.VQ RACK.
tention she may require, and she re-
mains there until her lamb is about a
week old, or, in other words, old
enough to rough it. and take all the
milk the dam will have. Then she and
tier lamb are placed with others of
about the same age, and the ewes are
given their first grain ration, which is
increased in quantity, and gradually
1hev get ensilage, to which are added
bran, corncob meal and linseed meal.
OaU are too costly uitli us, other-
wise I should mix them with
other grains. 'I he ab ive- mixture
is fed twice a day with as much clover
hay as they eau eat. so as to produce as
much and as rich milk as the latnbs
will drink. The little lamb-are taught
to eat a -ide diet) as early as possible,
and nothing gives me so much pleasure
j- to see lOto 20 of them in a row eat-
USING MACHINERY.
A Few word. AbouTtl.o I'urclia,,
Labor-Saving Implements.
h?re are two extremes in this. Some
are induced to purchase every new
thing that comes along whether it is
actually needed or not or without con-
sidering carefully whether it is adapted
to the character of the work it would
be put to on the farm. The other ex-
treme is in failing to use such machinery
as is really necessary to farm econom-
ic a y. Some will insist upon using a
one-horse diamond plow or double
shovel in giving the necessary cultiva-
tion to the crops when a good two horse
cultivator costing but little more will
do the work fully as well and milch
more economically, or will persist in
unloading hay from a wagon in a barn
or mow when a hay carrier and fork
would do the work at a considerable
saving of time and labor.
Good machinery properly used saves
time ami labor und in this way de-
creases the cost of growing quite a
number of crops by and lessening the cost
increases the profits. Too much ma-
chinery like too much fencing is too
much capital invested that is lying idle
and does not return a good per ceut. on
the money invested.
In the work of preparing the soil,
planting the seed, cultivating and har-
vesting the crops, as a rule whenever
machinery lessens the work, saves
time and labor, it will nearly always
be found economical to purchase and
use, but it must be adapted to the kind
of work required of it in order to get
the best results. While an implement
or tool may do first-class work under
certain conditions it is of little value
under others, and this is one reason
why so many fail to get as much out of
this investment as they expected. Then,
again, the implement may be well
adapted to the work required, but the
operator does not Ikijust it properly
and ill consequence it fails to work sat-
isfactorily.
Ill order to purchase and use ma-
chinery to the lu st advantage it should
first be determined whether the imple-
ment can lie used to a sufficient advan-
tage to pay the cost of the investment,
then how well adapted to the kind and
character of the work required of it
under the conditions that it will be
used if you make the purchase. Then
its durability, price, ease of manage-
ment. Isith as to men und teams, an
>mpared with others. Generally it in
ing a mixture of good ensilage with i „ , ,
, . , ' "°t a good plan to expect a machine to
crushed oats, bran, corn-und-cob meal I i . i tm.n u
, , ... ' , i '1° t"o much. While not always so, vet
ami hnteeil cake ami the best pickings inki,i„r.,i i . . .
/ i I. K | to a * onsideraolc extent an win lenient
of over hay. an«l I am not - urprise.i in i i 1/ « i 11 /m ,
,< • , . , ' I innlt to do a naif dozen different kinds
U east • Picking ou a pa.ro ay i of work will rarelv do any one of
old twin, thai weigh IN pounds. It ,s Ull.m „ ^ ,• 1
great fun for my boys to pick out the 1 one n)I((le (,speciali; for on„ p
lambs, and weigh them once a month
and often twier, and it is one nf th<
way* to encourage th«*in to jrivo thr
younffsters the l c.st of attention.
I iiferd to he a ffreat loser of lamb*
from two to four months old: but we '
hare overcome mishaps of that sort by j ti,al you
tfivinjj them {Ti>od clover hay before
their jrrain ration, an<i then exercise.
k.i t, water, etc. Ah to the quantity 1
irive them, my idea of feeding lambs is
the virne a* with regard to milking and
* v inp ewes, and that is. to give them
ii. they will eat, but at the ^anie time I
waul Uiem to lick the corners of their
manirers elean. and when it ^rets near
feeding time that they are all wide
awake for the next meal. Rations on
|>ap r are good in some rApects, but
judicious judgment in feeding iN more
essential.—T. S. < ooper. in Rural New
Yorker.
| pose. It is often the ease that if it is
i represented to be good fbr everything
it'turns out to )m really j,ro<Kl for noth*
j ing. Hut avoid extremes. IJuy ma-
| chinery that is needed and that can be
used to advantage, but let alone all
can do the farm work without.
Farmers' Voice.
SMOOTHING HARROWS.
In
state
THE POULTRY YARD.
ho not fatten breeding fowls.
1 owi.s will walk away from food as
v>on as they have enough
I oaI. ashes should always Ih* sifted
• f re using for the dust bath.
Vorno broods should always l>e fed j
ft'per a to from the older ones.
Till great secret in raising younfr 1
diu ^ iN not to allow them to get wet !
Makk it a rule to clean the nests '
every week and paint them with coal I
* fiNEah are great foragers and de-
stroy many insects that hens will not '
touch.
II is not a good plan to feed the set- I
tnig hens on the nests; they need a lit-
tle exercise every day,
■Make a rule to feed the chickens very
°arl.v in the morning and late in the
' v«*ning just before they go to roost.
<" OD turkeys that are in gtxKl condi-
tion are marketable at all seas«ms of
the year at fair prices, cither alive or
dressed.
Afteii the chickens make a sufficient
growth to run a1>out they
overfed, especially i
market.
to Mnk* One Out of a Common
Square or Seotch Harrow.
answer to an inquirer, we ma\
that there is one way in which a
common square or Scotch harrow may
be changed to a smoothing harrow, or
to one possessing the principal advan-
tages of a slant-tooth iinnlement. The
common square vertical teeth must be
tirst removed, and in the spaces between
the teeth bore holes for the new teeth
having an inclination of about forty de-
grees from the vertical. There may be
nearly the same number of teeth as be-
fore, or there may be two of the new-
slant teeth f<>r each one of the old ones,
lake, for instance, the square Scotch
harrow represented in the accompany*
a
A Chief Who Iflmiteir Inflicted the I>eatl
I'cnultleH He lmpo f><l.
If you go down to French Guiana and
ascend the big Maroni river a little ilis-
tunee you will find a great many ne-
groes who talk very bad French. Some
of them, however, have visited France,
and have a little education. The more
intelligent of these negroes will tell you
that the greatest inan who ever lived,
except the first Napoleon, was ltoni.
One of these negro tribes is called the
Jloni, from the name of the man who
released the people from slavery.
ltoni was the intelligent and auda
cious negro who, in IT".!, revolted
against his master on the coast of Dutch
*iiliana. destroyed his property, escaped
with hundreds of other slaves and found-
ed a new home for the people, whom
he piloted to the borders of French
Guiana. For many decades all slaves
who escaped from their masters were
able to find their freedom among the
Konis. A curious story is told about
ltoni by the explorer Henri Coudreau,
who has done so much to make the in-
terior of French (iuiana known.
A long distance up the Maroni rivei
is the island Adlafo. which "means cut-
ting off the head." This is the island
where, for a long time. Iloni carried out
the execution of criminals whom he had
condemned to death. The curious fea-
ture of his system of capital punish-
ment was that he received noassistance
whatever in carrying his judgments in-
to effect. lie alone escorted the con-
demned persons to the Island of Adlafo
and unaided he cut off their heads. The
Spartaeusof the "Negroes of the Woods"
seemed to be particularly fond of this
s. >rt of exercise. Physically he was the
most powerful man in his country. No
one wished to cope with him in combat.
W hen he had a prisoner whom he
had condemned he would place his
flintlock and his saber in a canoe, seat
the condemned man in the bow of the
boat, and then paddle up stream sev-
' ral miles to the island. He would not
have even k boatman w ith him on these
little expeditions.
"Now." ltoni was wont to say to the
unhappy w retch before him. as he pad-
dled along: "Do not attempt to escape,
for if you do I shall surely stop you by
a bullet in the legs. I shall not' shoot
to kill you. for I shall wish to torture
you after I get you."
"No. chief. the trembling victim
would often reply. "I shall not try to
escape." And such was the terror ltoni
inspired that the unfortunate prisoner
would reach the place of punishment
probably without entertaining the
slightest thought of escaping.
When they reached the island lloni
Would tell his prisoner to get out of the
canoe and would then march him to the
place of execution. This was a large
Mat rock, washed by the waters of the
rapid river and shaded by a tamarind
tree. 1 he rock is still shown to every-
one who visits the spot. When they
reached the place ltoni. fierce and inex
ore hie, would sternly command:
"Now you die. To vfmr knees. Your
hands behind your back. Hold dow u
your head."
The unfortunate wretch, more dead
than alive, would mechanically olx-y
the order. ltoni would raise his saber,
and with one sure stroke would sever
the head from the body. The head
would roll upon the flat stone and the
b11hhI would lie washed away by the
rush of w ater from the rapids, which
now and then overspread the rock.
Itoni would then re-embark, and upon
his return his people would regard him
more than ever a a terror to evil-doers.
—< hicago llerald.
Mow to I'rotrrt Trre.
lake material such as l errv Iwixes
made of, and cut It by 18 Inches,
'ap it around the tree and secure it
'.v simply twisting a small wire about
near the top and pressing the lower
a little below the surface of the
I hesc protectors serve every pur-
pose desired, keeping out borers, rab-
11 v and mice ami protecting the young
"c from the severe heat of the sun un-
" ' <• top has grown sufficiently to af-
wnl this protection. They will Inst
w"°1 "'fee years andean be quickly
"" i uplv renewed as they cost only
- oo per 1.(100 at the factory.'thus mak-
"P them viry economical. They are
Oil the trees summer and winter,
a'' |S°ii tt,t ' know have never dam-
as some have feared,-
u"fc Judi Farmer.
Ing cut. which has forty teeth. Insert
two slant teeth between "tile former
teeth, which will give sixty-four slant-
teeth. The frame should be of the
strongest wood, so as to Ik* light: the
teeth should be of steel, and they may
lie of round rods five-eighths or three-
fourths of an inch iu diameter if in-
tended to cultivate corn broadcast, or
they may be square if mainly for
annot well j pulverizing plowed soil. A less efficient
feeding to I harrow would be one with only om
slant tooth between the former ones,
or thirty-two in all. The advantages
which the changed harrow would have
over the old one would be iu passing
over the hills of corn but not tearing up
the plants: in pulverizing the crust in
sowed fields of grain; iu pulverizing
spread manure; mellowing inverted
sod; in harrowing orchard* without
tenrlng the roots, and giving slant
enough for all rubbish to escape with-
out clogging the teeth. These should
be long enough to allow corn plants or
grain to pass freely under the frame
when cultivating them if they are a
foot high - they will bend down to six
inches, or even less.—Country.
Nijt'AsnKs are good feed for milch
cows. They produce rich milk and are
found from experience preferable to
pumpkins. They are fimt-raU IujJ
ul o lor fattening l.ogx.
Hot Work.
1 he heat of puddling furnaces is often
so great as to affect the health of the
workmen, besides telling seriously on
the aggregate of work done in a given
time. In some of the large puddling
works in Germany a provision has been
made in the shape of a shield whereby
the workmen are protected from the
furnace heat. The shield consists of a
rectangular iron set ti suspended from
an overhead rait, which can lie made to
cover the whole working side of the
furnace, and which can be pushed aside
when not required or w hen it interferes
with the work. The lower end is bent
Into a gutter, having a slight fall in the
direction of its length, and the upper
edge is provided on the Inside—that
nearest the furnace with a pipe per-
forated with small holes about three-
quarters of an inch apart, which is con-
nected with the pipe supplying water
for cooling the sides of tile furnace bed
When In use the inside of the screen is
kept constantly wet from the supply
pipe, the jets trickling down the screen
A notch is left at the bottom of the
screen for the passage of the rabble,
and a short inclined plate is provided
for the cinders to run over. With these
exceptions the whole of the furnace is
screened by the water-cooled plute N
Y. Sun.
Nrrnptiloiisly Ktttct.
"Mr. Shlvvcrsls a gray-headed man,
Isn't he'.'" asked Miss Itleeckcr, of New
York.
"1 never saw his head, my dear," re-
plied Miss Kmerson. of Huston, "but I
think it would be sufe to cull him a
gray-Am/vd man." Jury.
I'nqiieNtlonnltl.v True.
Neighbor Well, Patrick, I'm glad
■your master is dead, lie was an olo
sklu-lllnt, anyway.
Patrick (indignantly) - F.ilth, and Ot
I be I If he war alive you'd not be a ft her
jM.yiu' you wor glud he w i\deud.—Life,
THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT.
Turpentine is good for cleaning qll Supplies l„ed In t'ncle Sam', Many Post
varnished furniture, and also to clean Offices.
out musty galvanized or other iron
sinks.
—A remedy for tender feet is cold
water, about two quarts, two table-
spoonfuls of ammonia, one tablespoon-
ful of bay rum. Stir with the feet im-
mersed for ten minutes, gently throw-
ing the water over the limbs upward to
the knee. Then rub dry with a crash
towel and all the tender feeling is gone.
liaised Waffles: Mix two large tea-
eupfuls sweet milk, one quart flour, two
eggs, butter the size of an egg, a tea-
spoonful salt and one-third of a cake of
compressed yeast, or half teacupful po-
tato yeast. Set to rise over night, if
wanted for breakfast. Bake in hot and
well-greased waffle irons.—Orange Judd
Farmer.
Almond Puffs: Hlanch two ounces
of sweet almonds and beat them fine in
a mortar with orange-flower water.
Heat the whites of three eggs to a stiff
froth, add a little powdered sugar, then
mix in the almonds and add enough
sugar to make a thick paste. Pour by
spoonfuls on buttered paper and bake
in a cool oven.—Household Monthly.
—A charming bag for drawing-room
work is very easily made: Take a large
surah silk handkerchief, or any large
Square of silk, and fold it envelope
shape, sew the seams together about
two-thirds the distance to the corners,
then turn back the corners and trim
them with full soft lace. Around the
square thus left open run a casing for a
ribbon.
—To banish red ants from the pantry,
strew whole cloves about upon the
shelves. This is said to exterminate
moths also. If the latter get into the
carpet upon the floor, wet a towel,
place it upon the carpet and. protecting
the hand with a glove, go over the
towel with a sad-iron sufficiently hot to
produce a good steam.- This kills both
insects and uuhatched eggs.—Health
Monthly.
—I- ricasseed Chicken: Cut up and put
on to boil, skin side down, in a small
quantity of water. Season with pepper
and salt, and, if liked, slices of onion.
Steu gently until tender; remove
chicken; add half a pint of rich milk to
gravy and thicken with butter and flour
rubbed smoothly together, adding a lit-
tle of the gravy to soften and mix it.
I.et boil up two or three minutes, then
add a little chopped, parsley and serve.
—Detroit Free Press.
—Cream Corn-Starch Pudding: Put a
pint of milk in a double boiler. Meas-
ure four even tablespoonfula of corn
starch, moistened with a little cold
milk; add this to the hot milk: add a
half-cup of sugar, stir and cook con-
stantly for five minutes, then take from
the tire: add hastily the beaten whites
of four eggs, a teaspoonful of vanilla.
and turn into a mold to cool. Serve
w ith the custard made from the yolks
of the eggs pyured around.— Boston
Budget.
—Salmon Soup: Wash a pound of fresh
salmon, cover with boiling water, stew
gently for twenty minutes, then take
from the water, reject skin and l ines,
and mash the flesh through the colan-
der. Put a pint of veal broth and the
same of milk, in a double lioiler, and
when they come to boiling point put in
two tablespoonfuls of Hour and one of
butter, well blended
thickens, then add the
pepper to taste. Let all come once more
to a boil and serve. If canned salmon
i> used it is well to boil it only a little.
-X. Y. World.
The post-office department is the
great business department of the gov-
ernment and the nearest in toe^i with
the people. There arc many people who
have rarely seen a soldier or a sailor,
.and many more who have never set
eyes on a fort or man-of war; but it
must be a blind man or a hermit who
has never seen a post office or a mail
carrier. Therefore, any details of the
workings of this great department must
be of interest to the public.
Six tons of stationery and such sup-
plies are required every working day in
the year for the (15.000 post offices in'the
1 nited States. The supplies are all
shipped from the big brick warehouse
on E street, \\ ashfngton city.
One great room in the building is
nearly filled with sacks of jute w rap-
ping-twine. Twenty - five thousand
pounds of this alone are sent out every
week. Itcomesin balls, and. according
to contract, each one has four inches of
strfng sticking out of its middle. By
this device employes are induced to
start unwrapping the balls from that
end. Formerly they began from the
other extremity, so that each ball
wound up with a tangle, and a quarter
of each on an average was wasted. The
loss in the aggregate was no trifle,
amounting to 25 per cent, of the cost.
On the other side of the same room is
a sack containing 4.000 reams of manilla
paper blanks, called "facings." That
quantity lasts just forty days. Two liun^
dred millions of these blanks are used
every year.
One of them has to lie fastened to the
outside of every package of letters sen!
from any post office, with information
written upon it as to the place from
which it is dispatched, the name of the
sender, the date and the like. ■
Half a million lead pencils are con'
sumed in I'ncle Sam's postal service an
nuallv: likewise 7,200 quarts of muci-
lage, 1.500 barrels of ink, 10.000 pounds
of rubber bands and 12,000 gross of
pens.
The pens alone cost f.'.OOOevery twelve
months. Only first and second-class
post oflices get such luxuries as
pens, ink, mucilage and blank
books. Twenty-eight thousand ink-
pads and thirty thousand pounds of
stamping ink are needed ycarlv for
making postmarks. Six million cards
are used in the same length of time for
receipts for registered letters and pack-
ages. But these are only a few of the
articles which are supplied to postmas-
ters.
One of the costly items in the ac-
counts of this supply division of the
post office department is weighing
scales. Two hundred of them, on an
average, are sent out every week to re-
place those which are worn out, get
broken by dropping off tables or are
burned up with post office buildings.
This represents an annual expense of
to.000. although Uncle Sam buys his
scales for less than a third of the reg-
ular market price. For example. $2.50
scales cost the post ofllce department
only 75 cents.
All stationery is got at about the same
discount. Mercantile firms are willing
to sell to the government at cost, be-
cause they consider it an advertisement.
The scales go all the way from little
ones, that will register only four
stir until it pounds, up to big ones for weighing
salmon; salt and | newspapers and other large packages
which will balance one thousand
pounds.
New \ ork. Philadelphia. Boston. Cin-
cinnati and San Francisco have five-
WASH DRESSES thousand-pound scales, which will weigh
teams and their loads.—Golden Days.
Some Neal unit Tasty KITectn In Sprlrnj
(•OIVIIN.
W asli ilrcs^os of lawns and prin.sfhams
are made in many of the ways described
for other dresses, but without lining in
the waist. Zephyr ginghams in narrow
stripes of pink, green, blue or lilac with
white are in great favor at present, and
are made up straight instead of bias, as
they were last year. A full gathered
and hemmed skirt of three or four
breadths is in dresses for girls from six
to fourteen years old. A high belted
waist has a blouse effect by fulness
gathered on the shoulders in front and
back, with a point of embroidery let in
at the top of the front. A turnod-ilown
ruflle of embroidery is around the neck,
and the mutton-leg sleeves have em-
broidered cutis. '1 he belt is of insertion.
Other gingham waists have a yoke of
embroidery, and a pointed Swiss belt to
match. Still other round waists have
bias brctclles of the gingham, narrow at
the waist line, but widening out to four or
six inchcson the shoulders, and stitched
on through the middle in full gathers
or plaits. Low, round baby waists of
gingham, lawn or nainsook, with u
bertha and sleeve frill of embroidery to
be worn with a guimpe, were described
in the Bazar last summer. Pretty dresses
of pit.k mull or lawn with no lining,and
sleeves that tie up so they can bo easily
laundered, have a low gathered belted
waist, and u deep full frill of the lawn
around the neck tied upon the shoul-
ders with light blue velvet ribbon.
\\ bite pique dresses have a shallow
yoke all ill one piece of blue pique, with
a Swiss belt of the blue, and blue cuffs
to the full sleeves; three rows of white
braid trimming are on all the blue parts.
Cotton cheviot and cotton Bedford
lire SSI'S for school wear are made in this
way. Sailor dresses with blouse and
deep sailor collar and straight skirt,
gathered or box-plaited, will be nv.deoi
duck, drilling or Madras cloth in white,
blue or pink, with trimming of white
bruld iu many rows.—llurpcr's Bazar.
InsiHtliij- on Accuracy.
j "I eaeher—\\ hat is the distance from
j here to the moon.
I Thoughtful Pupil—About two hun-
; dred and for-eight thousand miles.
"Haven't I told you time and again,
Johnny Pepperill, that the distance
i from the earth's surface to the moon is
a little less than two hundred and forty
j thousand miles?"
Yes'm. and you told us a little while
ago that it was night in China and the
moon was shining on China, this very
| minute."
"Certainly."
"Well, ain't it eight thousand miles
from here to China?"—Chicago Tribune.
I" the Hairy Keataunint.
M.'.Chirking (to waitress)- Snv, Mary;
I ordered some rolls and a bowl of "half-
und-half." What do .vou think 1 meant
jy "half-and-half?"
Mary—1 brought you half milk and
hjilf cream, sir.
Mr. ( larking—Oh! 1 thought maybe it
va.s half milk and half water.—Puck.
Not Her Kuult Altogether,
"For heaven's sake, Jane! that dust
must have been there for bix months, at
least!"
"Sure, mam, then it's not my fault at
all, for the leddy knows I've only been
just ten weeks in the house."—Truth.
I'ndenlalile.
"I'll like to know why you refer to
my papa as Satan." exclaimed Kliza
Snodgrass to young Mr. Hunker.
"I have Scripture authority for it."
'Indeed?"
"Yes. Isn't he the father of 'Lize?''
—.1 udge.
I'nnecessurv Trouble. — "I don't
[think." niid Clara, "that these flowers
■mutch my complexion, do you?" "No,
they don't," said Maude, "und you
iiuustn't go out that way. But I
'wouldn't iiother to change tliu flower*
|if 1 were you."—Cloak lie view.
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Moats, J. W. Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1892, newspaper, May 13, 1892; Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc118831/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.